State of the Vicki

At the moment, the state of the Vicki is "somewhat stressed," of the sort where I realized from physical signs and then stopped and figured out (at least most of) why. Much of it is self-limiting: both my menstrual period and my pre-con jitters will be over soon, no matter what I do.

This afternoon at work, I wound up explaining to my officemate why "what does the graph of e^dx/dy look like?" isn't a well-defined question, after he asked me what said curve would look like. (No, this had nothing to do with anything either of us was working on, and next time I'll let him re-teach himself calculus; I had to explain to him that yes, derivatives are calculus.) He was willing to accept it when I wrote down four relatively straightforward equations, the relevant derivatives for each, and how different e^{those values} were. Nothing weird, just stuff like f(x)=x², f(x)=x-3, and f(x)=cos(x). And then I went back to fiddling with grammar and typos, and looking up the diameter of Betelgeuse (which was work-related) and the area of Florida (ditto).

I've also been to the gym, which helps some with the stress. ( numbers cut, as usual )

State of the Vicki

At the moment, the state of the Vicki is "somewhat stressed," of the sort where I realized from physical signs and then stopped and figured out (at least most of) why. Much of it is self-limiting: both my menstrual period and my pre-con jitters will be over soon, no matter what I do.

This afternoon at work, I wound up explaining to my officemate why "what does the graph of e^dx/dy look like?" isn't a well-defined question, after he asked me what said curve would look like. (No, this had nothing to do with anything either of us was working on, and next time I'll let him re-teach himself calculus; I had to explain to him that yes, derivatives are calculus.) He was willing to accept it when I wrote down four relatively straightforward equations, the relevant derivatives for each, and how different e^{those values} were. Nothing weird, just stuff like f(x)=x², f(x)=x-3, and f(x)=cos(x). And then I went back to fiddling with grammar and typos, and looking up the diameter of Betelgeuse (which was work-related) and the area of Florida (ditto).

I've also been to the gym, which helps some with the stress. ( numbers cut, as usual )